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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 161   View pdf image
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Signed sealed and delivered                                                   Samuel Travers   (seal)
in the presence         W.m W. Pattison   Clara Travers

          State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
                      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that on this Eleventh day of May
Eighteen hundred & fifty five before the subscriber one of the Justices of the peace of the State of
Maryland in & for Dorchester County aforesaid personally appears Samuel Travers he being known
to me to be the person who is named and described as and professing to be a party to the foregoing
deed of manumission & doth acknowledge the Said deed or instrument of writing to be his act &
deed.  In testimony whereof I hereunto subscribe my name on the day and year aforesaid
                                                                                           W.m W. Pattison J. P.


William Howith      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following
√         from xd      Bill of Sale was received and recorded on the 28th day of
Hooper C. Hicks      April in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred
                            and Fifty five to wit:
                      Know all men by these presents that I Hooper C. Hicks of Dorchester
County state of Maryland for and in consideration of the sum of Three Hundred
& Twelve Dollars Current money to men in hand paid or secured to be paid
by William Howeth of Dorchester County state of Maryland have granted bargained
& sold & by these presents do bargain grant and sell Negro Girl Caroline unto the
said William Howith his heirs & executors or assigns the said negro girl having
to serve according to the will of Aaron Cook to the full end & term of twenty four
years from the 21st day of December in the year Eighteen Hundred & Forty Two it
being all the right title and estate of the said Hooper C. Hicks of in & to the said
negro girl sold by him for the remaining time of said girls service.  In witness
whereof we have hereunto set our hands & seals this 7 day of April in the year
Eighteen Hundred and Fifty Five                                       Hooper C. Hicks   (seal)
                                                                                              W.m Howeth   (seal)

State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit:
                         On the 7 day of April in the year Eighteen Hundred &
fifty five before the subscriber a Justice of the peace of Said County & state personally
appeared Hooper C. Hicks & William Howeth being known to me to
be the persons professing to be parties to the aforegoing instrument of writing &
acknowledge the Said to be their act & deed for the purposes therein mentioned
at the same time appeared William Howeth and made Oath on the Holy Evangelist
of Almighty God that the Consideration therein Contained and expressed is true
& bona fide                               Sworn before            Samuel Keys  J. P.


William K. Traverse         Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that
       √   To  x.d                the following Deed of Manumission was received and
Negroes Anna William    recorded on the 5th day of June 1855 To wit:
Abel & Mary Jane                              To all whom it may Concern be it known
                                       that I William K. Traverse of Dorchester County in the
state of Maryland for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving


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